In experiments with lab mice, she discovered
how small groups of cells dance about to form an embryo and how a layer of cells surrounding the embryo itself, previously thought of as nothing more than a protective cloak, orchestrates the formation of an embryo's body parts.
Not exact matches
The three scientists assembled
small aggregates
of nerve
cells, known informally as «mini-brains,» and used them to study
how specific
groups of neurons in the brain find each other and establish connections.
Assuming that the findings
of the review reflected a causal relation between smoking cessation and risk
of all cause mortality, we further investigated the data by constructing life tables for a hypothetical
group of 100 patients aged 65 years with early stage lung cancer to estimate
how many deaths would be prevented by smoking cessation within the non-
small cell lung cancer and
small cell lung cancer populations during five years.